Pith Number

pith:RKZPBVTH

pith:2020:RKZPBVTHRTS5D7LPX7XBUPLDH2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Radio emission from negative lightning leader steps reveals inner meter-scale structure

A. Bonardi, A. Corstanje, A. Nelles, B. M. Hare, B. Neijzen, G. K. Krampah, H. Falcke, H. Pandya, J. Dwyer, J. P. Rachen, J. R. H\"orandel, K. Mulrey, L. Rossetto, O. Scholten, P. Mitra, S. Buitink, S. Nijdam, S. ter Veen, T. Huege, T. N. G. Trinh, T. Winchen, U. Ebert

arxiv:2007.03231 v1 · 2020-07-07 · physics.ao-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKZPBVTHRTS5D7LPX7XBUPLDH2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:17:19.226497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ab2f0d6678ce5d1fd6fbfee1a3d633e99bc6cfd248f2294bc8da03731e8fceb

Aliases

arxiv: 2007.03231 · arxiv_version: 2007.03231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2007.03231 · pith_short_12: RKZPBVTHRTS5 · pith_short_16: RKZPBVTHRTS5D7LP · pith_short_8: RKZPBVTH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RKZPBVTHRTS5D7LPX7XBUPLDH2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8ab2f0d6678ce5d1fd6fbfee1a3d633e99bc6cfd248f2294bc8da03731e8fceb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "013e3d44ea03982d66ca96aa1e678511cd36776091d4b7c6a03e48730eb0e8f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ao-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-07-07T06:52:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf9c15659212694bd64518c425212b6f27c4da358c3cca56991f34611c337115"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2007.03231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}